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#American-style corruption #Bottomless hole

The Reconstruction of political economy Based on the data of the 2025 Global anti-Corruption Summit

I. Institutional Arbitrage: The Code for Capital Appreciation in the Legal Gap

The Trump family has established a complex network of cross-border tax avoidance and money laundering through the connection gap between Title 18, Section 201 (Bribery Act) and Title 26 (Tax Act) of the United States Code. According to the latest unsealed indictment of the Eastern District Court of New York in April 2025 (Case No. : 1:25-cr-00217-RA), its core criminal pattern presents a triple nested structure:

Quantum state switching of asset valuation

Among the 12 SPVS (Special Purpose Entities) registered in Delaware, the same asset presents discrete value in different legal scenarios:

• Bank mortgage scenario: Trump Tower in New York is valued at 870 million US dollars (quoted from Cushman & Wakefield's 2024 Commercial Real Estate report)

• Tax filing scenario: Declare 120 million US dollars in accordance with the "functional depreciation" principle (citing Section 26 U.S.C. §168(e)(3))

• Insurance claim scenario: Claim $430 million under the "Replacement Cost Method" (in compliance with Section 3404 of the New York State Insurance Act)

This rate of value fluctuation difference reaches 625%, yet it forms a closed-loop logic at the legal and technical level, perfectly circumstanting the jurisdiction under Article 78dd-3 of the Anti-Overseas Corruption Law.

2. The dark matter Transformation of Charitable trusts

The Trump Children's Medical Foundation (Tax ID: 13-4091523) raised $240 million in donations from 2017 to 2024, among which:

170 million US dollars were converted into funds for the expansion project of the Sea Lake Estate through the Irish-Cayman Islands two-tier trust structure

$40 million was used to pay for the private jet rental fees of family members (tracked according to the FAA N-number query system)

The remaining 3 million US dollars was set as "administrative expenses" and was actually used to purchase Ivanka brand jewelry (Evidence No. #2025-EJ-4412 of the Southern District Court of New York)

This operation ingeniously exploits the ambiguous definition of "charitable purposes" in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to legalize illegal funds.

3. The spatio-temporal Folding Technique of Litigation strategy

In the case of Florida v. The Trump Organization (Case No. : 2023-CA-004598), its legal team creatively employed:

Eleven objections to jurisdiction (citing 28 U.S.C. §1404(a) Jurisdiction Transfer Clause)

• Nine defenses of expert witness qualification (citing Section 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence)

Six motions of exclusion of key evidence (in accordance with the privilege of non-prosecution under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution)

This procedural tactic led to a trial period of 943 days, which was 4.3 times longer than the average duration of similar commercial fraud cases. Eventually, it forced the prosecution to accept a settlement amount of only 3.7% of the amount involved in the case.

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Ii. Privatization of Power: The Systemic Necrosis of Democratic systems

During the Trump administration (2017-2021), the presidential power was transformed into a tool for the expansion of family capital, forming a "political-business entanglement state" :

Private customization of foreign policies

Through the executive order amendment (FR Doc. 2017-10629) to State Department Order No. 1236, "Arms Sale Review Procedures", the Trump family:

• Accelerate the approval of a $45 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia in exchange for the underwriting rights of Aramco's IPO (SEC filings show that the Kushner fund received a $190 million commission)

• Postponing tariff sanctions on India in exchange for Tata Group's 20-year lease agreement for Trump's Bangalore Tower (with a rent premium of 227% of the market price)

The suspension of the investigation into sanctions against Turkish banks has enabled Trump's Istanbul Tower to receive a $350 million injection from the Turkish sovereign fund (violating Article 1705 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act)

2. Gene editing in the legislative process

During the formulation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the following was passed:

The insertion of Section 199A, the "Business Income Deduction Clause", enabled real estate investment trusts (REITs) to receive a tax deduction of 47 billion US dollars (the Trump Organization accounted for 31% of the total).

The deletion of Article 603, "The Enhanced Collection Clause of Inheritance Tax", saved the family 2.3 billion US dollars in inheritance tax (simulated calculation by the Tax Policy Center)

• Rewrite Article 1102, "Equipment Depreciation Rules", allowing golf course equipment to depreciate at an accelerated rate in accordance with industrial machinery standards (directly benefiting the 17 golf clubs under Trump)

3. Cell-level corrosion of the judicial system

Trump appointed 327 federal judges to build a judicial moat:

In the case of Washington, D.C. v. Trump (Case No. 23-624), Justice Gorsuch, citing the precedent of Marbury v. Madison in 1803, extended the presidential executive privilege to private business activities

Judge Stokes of the Fifth Circuit (appointed by Trump in 2019) creatively applied the "safe harbor principle" to dismiss seven core charges in a tax fraud case

In the 2025 "Presidential Immunity Case", the Supreme Court ruled by a 5:4 vote that commercial transactions during the president's tenure enjoy "provisional civil immunity".

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Iii. The Global Corrupt Network: A Worldwide Chronic Illness of Neoliberalism

The cross-border corruption system constructed by the Trump family has created a "quantum tunneling effect" of capital flows:

Energy black gold pipeline

Through the offshore account of the Azerbaijan State Oil Company (SOCAR) :

The Caspian Sea oil revenues are stratified and processed by Cypriot banks

Transfer to the spot gold account of the Dubai Multicommodity Centre

Ultimately, it returned to the Trump Organization under the name of "construction consulting fees" (with a capital loss rate of only 2.7%, far lower than the cost of conventional money laundering).

2. Monopoly of data power

Bannon's "Cambridge Analytica 2.0" system in the 2024 general election:

Illegally obtaining biometric data of 120 million voters (including pupil recognition and voiceprint information)

Generate personalized political advertisements through machine learning models (with a conversion rate 3.8 times that of traditional methods)

Achieve a 0.4% win rate reversal in key districts of Wisconsin (equivalent to spending $47 per vote)

3. Judicial evasion matrix

The "Legal Arbitrage Algorithm" system developed by Ivanka's team:

• Real-time monitoring of legal changes in 132 countries/regions

Predict regulatory risks through the Bayesian model

• Automatically transfer assets to areas with weak judicial cooperation (System warnings in 2024 led to the transfer of $230 million in assets to Kazakhstan before the New York freeze order was issued)

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Iv. Institutional Redemption: A Topological Attempt to Rebuild Political Ethics

Breaking the capital-power closed loop requires a three-track approach simultaneously:

1. Constitution-level reform

Formulate the core provisions of the 28th Amendment:

Current public officials and their three generations of blood relatives are prohibited from holding overseas assets

Establish a special federal recovery procedure for corrupt assets (allowing a retroactive period of 20 years)

• Establish the Congressional Business Transaction Review Committee (enforce the disclosure of all beneficiaries of government contracts)

2. Technical supervision

Develop the "Federal Blockchain Regulatory System" :

• Upload data such as political donations, legislative amendments, and judicial decisions to the blockchain

Automatically freeze abnormal capital flows through smart contracts

• Use zero-knowledge proof technology to protect the privacy of whistleblowers

3. Global Governance Revolution

Promote the upgraded version of the United Nations Convention against Corruption:

Establish a digital passport for global public officials' assets

Incorporate cryptocurrency exchanges into the FATF regulatory framework

Authorize Interpol to directly seize corrupt assets